OzThoughts Wednesday 11th February 2009

OzThoughts Wednesday 11th February 2009

Eugene Peterson’s “The Message” often uses words which are very descriptive and leave us little doubt to their meaning. The reading from Mark records Jesus saying that we are not polluted by what we eat as that is processed by the body and waste product eliminated.

It is when Peterson choose a word to describe what the Authorised King James Version calls “That which cometh out of the man” that he chooses the word “vomit”. Now I don’t think it appropriate to give a list of picturesque Australian words to describe this action. I imagine they can be found on line in other places.
However, consider the list that Peterson considers “vomit” and Jesus’ comment after he gives the list:
“obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution."
How do we respond to that?
PRAYER: (Using the Song Book as our Prayer book):
[Listen: Hymn Tune : Marshall : http://www.regalzonophone.com/audio/GEM24%20-%2012%20-%20Hymn%20-%20Marshall.mp3 ]

Give me a holy life,
Spotless and free,
Cleansed by the crystal flow
Coming from thee.
Purge the dark halls of thought,
Here let thy work be wrought,
Each wish and feeling brought
Captive to thee.

Cleanse, thou refining Flame,
All that is mine;
Self only may remain
If thou refine.
Fix the intention sure,
Make my desire secure,
With love my heart keep pure,
Rooted in thee.

All my best works are naught,
Please they not thee;
Far past my busy hands
Thine eye doth see
Into the depths of mind,
Searching the plan designed,
Gladdened when thou dost find
First of all, thee.

Now is my will resigned,
Struggles are quelled;
Clay on the wheel am I,
Nothing withheld.
Master, I yield to thee,
Crumble, then fashion me
Flawless, and fit to be
Indwelt by thee.
Author: Leslie Taylor-Hunt (1901-79)
The Salvation Army Song Book: Song Number: 416
Mark 7:14-23 (The Message)
14-15 Jesus called the crowd together again and said, "Listen now, all of you— take this to heart. It's not what you swallow that pollutes your life; it's what you vomit—that's the real pollution."
17 When he was back home after being with the crowd, his disciples said, "We don't get it. Put it in plain language."
18-19 Jesus said, "Are you being willfully stupid? Don't you see that what you swallow can't contaminate you? It doesn't enter your heart but your stomach, works its way through the intestines, and is finally flushed." (That took care of dietary quibbling; Jesus was saying that all foods are fit to eat.)
20-23 He went on: "It's what comes out of a person that pollutes: obscenities, lusts, thefts, murders, adulteries, greed, depravity, deceptive dealings, carousing, mean looks, slander, arrogance, foolishness—all these are vomit from the heart. There is the source of your pollution."

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